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John Bowman I've been with CBCNews.ca for more than 10 years, so I've done a lot of different jobs on the website. I started blogging for the CBC with the Blog Report on Canada Votes 2006. I'm into science and technology news, and new and nerdy ways to tell stories, like databases, charts and maps. I'm on Twitter @johnbowman.

Today marks the beginning of the lunar calendar used in many parts of Asia and celebrated around the world. But the lunar new year brings an interesting linguistic and cultural question: Are we in the Year of the Sheep or the Ram or the Goat?

Kyle Lowry of the Toronto Raptors was named to the starting lineup of the Eastern Conference team for the NBA All-Star game.
He owes this honour, at least in part, to support from thousands of Twitter users who voted for him using the #NBAballot hashtag.

Fan voting on social media has become a common way to decide the winners of these kinds of awards in sports and in entertainment.
But can you trust the result of a hashtag vote?

A likely false alarm aboard the International Space Station forced its crew to shut themselves in the Russian segment as a precaution, and former station commander Chris Hadfield took to Twitter to explain how astronauts train for such emergencies

News of the deadly attack on the Paris office of Charlie Hebdo hit close to home for political cartoonists and other illustrators, who posted their reactions to the violent deaths of their follow artists.

In the wake of the attack on the Paris office of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, the hashtag #JeSuisCharlie -- French for "I am Charlie" -- was trending in France, Canada and the U.K., with more than 130,000 mentions on Twitter as of Wednesday morning.